Cloud Platform - Release Notes: November 24, 2015

Updated by Mary Cadera on Nov 24, 2015

New Features (1)

CentOS 7 - New Supported OS Template. Customers may now create VMs based on the CentOS 7 operating system from the Control Portal and the API. This latest OS offers the same features as RHEL 7, but at no charge. In addition, this OS template will be managed and maintained by our OS team ongoing, so new features and capabilities will be included as they are vetted by our team.

Early Adopter Program Updates (1)

In-datacenter replication. Coming November 30th, customers can enjoy a more highly available solution by choosing to replicate their database instance within datacenter with logic that ensures the primary and replica instances do not share the same host or storage infrastructure.

New UI. Starting November 30th, customers will notice a change in the look, feel, and functionality of the MySQL DBaaS user interface. The UI will be more consistent with the CenturyLink Cloud Control Portal.

Bare Metal Support for Execute Package. Packages can now be executed on Bare Metal servers using the Execute Package action available at the server group level.

Announcements & Reminders (2)

New Policy: Automatic Removal of "Under Construction" Resources. Occasionally, requests for new resources in CenturyLink Cloud will not complete successfully, and appear as "Under Construction" indefinitely. Effective January 1, 2016, requests that remain "Under Construction" state for 14 days will be automatically deleted from the platform. The removal of resources will be done automatically every two weeks, so the first such removal will be January 15, 2016.

Customers do not get billed for resources in an "Under Construction" state, so this new policy does not have a commercial impact to billing and usage.

Reminder: No Automated Backup for Custom VMs Larger than 4 TB. The Standard and Premium backup features do not function on VMs with more than 4 TB of block storage. Customers are responsible for their own backups on these servers.